View of the Rostra Vetera

Triton XVI, Lot: 824. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Lollius Palicanus. 45 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.72 g, 11h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Libertas right, wearing cruciform earring and pearl necklace, two locks of hair falling down her neck; LIBERTATIS downwards to right / View of Rostra in the Roman Forum, ornamented with ships’ beaks and surmounted by subsellium (tribune’s bench); PALIKANVS above. Crawford 473/1; CRI 86; Sydenham 960; Kestner 3655-6; BMCRR Rome 4011-2; Lollia 2. Good VF, toned, shallow mark near edge at about 5 o’clock on reverse under tone.

From the Chiltern Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 1547.